Ionographic chamber
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGerhard Kuhn, Karl Ubler, Karl-Hans Reiss
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Abstract
An ionography chamber with spherically curved electrodes, in which an electrically insulating sheet is located between the spherically curved electrodes and covers one of these electrodes. The covered electrode has an uneven shape near its edge, and a gas is admitted into a space between the sheet and the other electrode. The uneveness of one of the electrodes is in the form of a groove running along the edge of the electrode, or a rib attached along the edge of the electrode. A pressure difference is generated for the purpose of pressing the sheet against the electrode with the uneven shape. The pressure difference causes the sheet to be tightly bonded to the respective electrode.
Claims7
An ionography chamber with spherically curved first and second electrodes comprising, in combination, an electrically insulating sheet between said curved electrodes and covering said first electrode;
- means for applying an electrical potential between said electrodes;
- said first electrode having depression or projection contouring near its edge covered by a portion of said sheet;
- means forming a chamber between the sheet and the second electrode;
- and means for admitting a gas into said chamber between said sheet and the second electrode and means generating a pressure dfference whereby the pressure between said first electrode and said sheet is less than the pressure in said chamber between the sheet and the second electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.